The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1887-11-09
FASHION POINTS.

| that color in Paris.
|, Visites Jackets, and short wraps are triae
| longer this winter.
The ostrich tip is beginning to assert itself
IN fashionable millinery.
Plsi1ness to severity is the rule in the new
est ana most approved models for skires.
| Red, gray, brown and green in softeped
shades are the popular colors for felt hats.
| Sleeves Of fabric different from that Of
the corsage are seen on cloth and silk gowns.
Plush fabrics in stripes and large figures
are revived for the skirts Of cloths and silk
| dresses.
Guipure lace Is now worn over sstIns and
moires in evening dress to the exclusion Of
| Chantilly.
Shot cloths are new wooden gtuffs woven
in two coiors, SO as TO give the 'changeable"
effect now 80 fashionable.
| Embroidered crepe lisse in stripes and dots
| is used in combination with satin, MORE and
| Bengailne for evening dresses.
The reign of glitter in dress will soon be
| OVER. beads and beaded trimmings are
rapidly being driven to the background
| Pushes of TWO kinds, one with long, feecy
| pile, the other short and velvety, are used
for many OF the handsomest short wraps.
| In rich costumes three fabrics are now
| often employed, a fayor1te combination be-
| ing brocacied with repDed silk and Telyet.
The Alpine, the English turban, the Bou-
|
Admiral are the fsyorlte hats of the season.
One of the very latest designs in bracelets
| Is series of golden knots, each knot being
| set either With ruby, sapphire or diamond.
| The latest idea in ladies' collar buttons is
| shamrock, composed of o diamond, ruby
| and q sapphire, set into disk Of Roman
| gold.
| Long gloves for full dress have the kid only
| long enough. to cover the wrist, the rest of
| the glove being made OF lace net OF exactly
| the same shade.
Tea jackets or matinee sacques are charm
! ing garments, made Of soft slirah or India
silks, trimmed with much gold embroidery
and with lace.
The manufactured trimmings which have
been ignored for years are now i'll full favor
again. Passe;nenteries were never before SO
varied and SO effective.
~, White sad eolored slippers are no longer
chaussu,p is OF black kid suide or glaci, elab-
orately embroidered in beadwork.
Everything Russian is now the fashion:
MuscOvlte dresses, Byzantine galloons, gold
stuffs, Russian colors-such is the arsenal
from which the prevailing styles are drawn.
Al but tailor-msde toilets are embellished
with vest fichu of crepe, null OF silk tissue,
fastened to q high military collar and trimmed
down either side with o band OF velvet rib
bon.
The kilt emit of black velvet is the favorite
for, very small boys The collar and cuffs are
of lace, the soft lnotted silk necktie pale
dotted with White.
Wide bands of stitching on the backs of
kid and Suede gloves appear again this
season. They are popular because they di-
minish the apparent size of the hand and
make 1t look narrower.
It is astonishing to notice how completely
the fashion OF wearing earrings is dying out.
Esthetes have made an earnest crusade
against the barbarous custom CT matilating
the ears, and seem to have carried their
point
The Admiral, hat not unlike the Boulsn-
ger in its general outlines, but trimmed with
g military panache or pyramid OF down,
floating uncurled cocks piumes, placed on
the very top OF the crown, is the rival OF the
Boulanger.
Large spots or macearoons in silver, gold,
tinted metals, Jet and other beads are seen
on the tul!e meta, gauzes, crepeS and all light
st1.tfs used for gathered or p!eated panels
and corsage draperies Of bridal, ball and
evening gowns.
Tea gowns of the ribbon striped silk. now
trimmed in the light style appropriate to
Vatican fabrics. l,oose fronts and close fit
ting backs are still the rule, but any CO.
price may be followed in designing the sleeves.
With the round bodices 'breteliesn have
come IN, and we may perhaps look for the
Bertha next. If any one does not know
what tho Bertha is, we may explain that it
is the deep tail Of lace surrounding the low
corsase to be seen in the fashion plates Of
thirty yea15aGo
Ostrich feather boas are among the taste
ful novelties OF the season; they are made Of
the feathers in their natural shades, or all
black. 81, else black and white together. To
wear with hem are en5ire bonnets of the
feathers, made to lie fiat like fringe, or in
small loops in rows.
The neweat ribbons are the most brilliant
and effective decorations for bonnets and
hats, as well dis for accessories Of the toilet,
that haze been in vogue for years. They
are, i'll fact, revival OF a fancy of forty
years ago, Or more, but G.oduced in greater
variety and effectiveness than ever.
White and black striped silk under-kirts
are Toln with bodices and fall overdresses
OF black light WOOL foulard, suruia, and BEN
i;aline, Or polonaises of these fabrics. Then
the looping and slashing are SO managed as
to show the striped underskirt in panels and
around the bottom in front and at the sides.
Gray, which is so fashionable, is not be-
coming color, but then it can be combined
with reds, browns, tans. pale blues, hello
tropes and all the becoming shades Of yellow
and rose, while gold, silver and jet, and
many tones OF coiored beads and tinsel
thread brighten it UP as prettily and becom-
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